scholarly journals Seasonal Sea Surface Temperature Asymmetry in the Northwestern Pacific Marginal Seas

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyeonyeong Kwak ◽  
Yang-Ki Cho ◽  
Gwang-Ho Seo ◽  
Yong-Jin Tak ◽  
Hyo-Seok Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Northwestern Pacific ◽  
Marginal Seas ◽  
Temperature Asymmetry

scholarly journals Seasonality of Decadal Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies in the Northwestern Pacific

2006 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 2953-2968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Mochizuki ◽  
Hideji Kida
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Mixed Layer ◽  
Surface Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Budget ◽  
Surface Heat ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Northwestern Pacific ◽  
Sst Anomaly

Abstract The seasonality of the decadal sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies and the related physical processes in the northwestern Pacific were investigated using a three-dimensional bulk mixed layer model. In the Kuroshio–Oyashio Extension (KOE) region, the strongest decadal SST anomaly was observed during December–February, while that of the central North Pacific occurred during February–April. From an examination of the seasonal heat budget of the ocean mixed layer, it was revealed that the seasonal-scale enhancement of the decadal SST anomaly in the KOE region was controlled by horizontal Ekman temperature transport in early winter and by vertical entrainment in autumn. The temperature transport by the geostrophic current made only a slight contribution to the seasonal variation of the decadal SST anomaly, despite controlling the upper-ocean thermal conditions on decadal time scales through the slow Rossby wave adjustment to the wind stress curl. When averaging over the entire KOE region, the contribution from the net sea surface heat flux was also no longer significantly detected. By examining the horizontal distributions of the local thermal damping rate, however, it was concluded that the wintertime decadal SST anomaly in the eastern KOE region was rather damped by the net sea surface heat flux. It was due to the fact that the anomalous local thermal damping of the SST anomaly resulting from the vertical entrainment in autumn was considerably strong enough to suppress the anomalous local atmospheric thermal forcing that acted to enhance the decadal SST anomaly.

Exploring records of typhoon variability in eastern China over the past 2000 years

2020 ◽  
Vol 132 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 2243-2252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Yang ◽  
Liang Zhou ◽  
Alexandre Normandeau ◽  
Jianjun Jia ◽  
Qijun Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
East Asian Monsoon ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Warm Pool ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Northwestern Pacific ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past 2000 Years

Abstract How climate controls tropical cyclone variability has critical implications for modern human society but is not well understood due to the short length of observational records. To probe this knowledge gap, we present a synthesis of intense typhoon activity from the northwestern Pacific over the past 2000 years, which is supported by a new, well-resolved tidal flat sedimentary record from the Jiangsu coast, eastern China. The record reveals nine intervals of typhoon frequency, indicating that the frequency of intense typhoons has varied on multi-centennial scales over the past 2000 years. Our synthesis shows strong evidence for a seesaw pattern of intense typhoon frequency between southeastern China and Japan and Korea. This pattern can be explained by the El Niño and Southern Oscillation–East Asian Monsoon–sea surface temperature hypothesis, which potentially explains the basin-wide typhoon climate in the northwestern Pacific region. A shift in typhoon activity was identified from 550–280 to 280–50 yr B.P. during the Little Ice Age, when typhoon activity changed from active to quiescent or vice versa. Centennial-scale shifts in Intertropical Convergence Zone and Western Pacific Warm Pool sea surface temperature are likely to be the primary forcing mechanisms driving this shift. Results obtained here provide links between typhoon activity and the El Niño and Southern Oscillation, the East Asian Monsoon, and the Western Pacific Warm Pool sea surface temperature, and therefore improve our ability to fully assess intense typhoon activity in future climate warming.

Supplemental Material: Enhanced precipitation in the Gulf of Mexico during the Eocene–Oligocene transition driven by interhemispherical temperature asymmetry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingqiu Hou ◽  
Guangsheng Zhuang ◽  
et al.
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Mean Annual Precipitation ◽  
Leaf Wax ◽  
Carbon Isotopic ◽  
Temperature Reconstructions ◽  
Isotopic Records ◽  
Temperature Asymmetry

Table S1: Leaf wax isotopic records in the Gulf of Mexico; Table S2: Reconstructions of mean annual precipitation based on leaf wax carbon isotopic records; Table S3: Sea surface temperature reconstructions; Table S4: Leaf wax isotopic records of modern trees.

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